Natali Stoiyanna Erkaraman

My life as a recycling artisan

  • Quite some time

    I’m working on it quite some time now.

    If there is a chance to life, there will be life… Eventually it will come out and sprout in every corner.

    I have no time for personal care but what I really need is some time for my personal life. A life of productivity. The life of mine, growing up in a studio of my own.

  • Giving a start 💫

    I have started today under the name of quite-time.studio in Scotch Plains, Jersey. I got my studio running, and is going to start its first well of the year on Thursday. The first day of school 🏫 2023/2024

    Nothing is ready and I don’t feel ready, too. But it is happening, the train 🚊 is arriving so I have to catch it. It is not an option. I am here to be and be active.

    Here comes the list of projects;

    My first chair

    Not mine, but this is actually the first chair that my son used with a baby sitting on top. And we left it for 1 year on front porch and some more in the garage.

    This chair 🪑 will be my second chair repair. Let’s see how it will go.

    Christmas 🎄 is coming early

    This year I will join in 🌲 The Red Mill Museum Village’s Tree festival in Clinton, NJ

    I will decorate my tree with giant ornaments made by my clay. This will also be my first workshop study.

    The well is opening tomorrow.

    Oldies

    I thought over on the old record player cabinet that I have paused. I figured out of a pattern technique that can be applied to make it more special until it doesn’t have any visible style nor esthetic. This pattern idea can cheer this piece up.

    With these three products I can see how fast will 2 hours pass.

  • Quitetime Studio

    Now it has a name, and a domain www.quitetime.studio

    This is a start.

    Quite time studio makes recyling projects, toys for talented kids, extraordinary books and many new ideas of gifts for talented.

    I have got products to start with:

    • Monsart cube – a rubic cube that has no rules.
    • Gogoto – A make your own folding book sticker pack. A craft pack of building a cardboard book with using recycled cardboards.
    • Magnet cubes of cities – A magnet cube blocks that has city graphics.
    • Ancient Vases – A handmade art projects of recycling. Reproduction of ancient vases of Athens by jars and paper masche clay.
    • Donation: Donate your unsolved rubic cube, books, paper
    • Workshop: Every Friday open studio for kids to play with giant blogs and paint, glitter and build gigantic statues.

    Toys and books will be produced with Alibaba and will be sell on Amazon. I got my friends

    The handmade pieces will be done by hand in my studio.

    All story and products will be shared on social media and on my blog.

    Handmade pieces will also be sold in Etsy and through the neighbourhood .

    All I need is to work on hand.

  • Till to August 30

    In the first days of arriving home, I came to a start of building connections to make things.

    the shop;

    Hanim Sultan

    I need my very loving 🥰 friend’s help to find the best fabric and solve the shipping process.

    My key 🔑 friend is my love 😍 for marketing.

    And the Queen 👸 of this cooperation surely will be a friend who has startup projects in the same field. So she can always predict what the worst case can be. She is such a brilliant women that can manage all kinds of input unless they are made for good 😊

    My product must be the best in quality so there is only one person that I can trust, who is also a sultan herself, my final ring to connect the circle 💍

    My job is being the project manager and designing the idea.

    My second goal is to open a real store, in Burgaz Island, which should be another branch to discuss later.

    TBD:

    Filika; kutuphane, konaklama, kahve.

  • Back home 🏡

  • Thrifts and Crafts

    My shop is a thrift and craft shop. All recycled, restored, redecorated 🎨

    Here is my recent piece. My old chair is reborn.

    This is a garden chair we bought from a thrift shop in Brooklyn. We used it many years as a dining chair and forgot it outdoor under rain and snow for a couple of years. it was all covered in rust and not in any good condition.

    After cleaning 🧼 and painting 🖼️ I designed a fish for the middle, cut out, and paint the negative parts.

    This piece is the one made me proud of myself.

  • Daylight – 12th week 🌞

    This is the last week of my third month.

    I placed my work under the sun 🌞 and got some photo shoots.

    Under the daylight and from behind my camera 🎥 I can see my work in someone else’s eyes 👀

    Which make me pick the most desirable one ☝️ My fish 🐠 plate.

    I’m still into cave pottery replications by recycled paper and plastics but I need to improve my techniques.

    While I go on with that I can practice and build a shop with this easy and fun 🤩 product sample.

    I also came up with a logo and I applied it on and under my works.

    But with my plates, I want to try a wider surface.

    I can plan a new start of a board design next month. And from today I will be mushing some paper on my IKEA bowls 🥣

  • Dead fish 🎣 – alive fish 🐟

    Fish crack – Orchid

    I see my outcomes a little too sexy. I feel tired 🥱 want to go up in the guest room and watch movies 🎥 all day.

    Instead I will care my family and with a quick shower, I might care myself, too. But I can’t find any blanks to just do nothing.

    Even if I catch such a blank I’m trying to come up with something good. Which seems impossible and unfair. I can’t judge my ability with the things I can only come up in my blank times.

    I think all I can do before next season is getting to know the materials and tools that I need. And prepare them for a start up.

    I got many test results. Now I focus on finishing the ongoing ones.

    Before going on the plane ✈️ to Turkey, my last out put will include:

    • Clay: Recycled paper mashed. Dishwasher safe gloss finishing. Indoor
    • Logo: name and graphics
    • Techniques: paper print cover, bead plates, paper rolls vase, balls, candle cups,
    • Shopping 🛒 needs

    But just know, I take a break ⏰

  • Unfolding

    I remember some favorite games of mine beside dreaming to play with mush.

    I love cutting. I love glueing. I love mono printing. I love building things with a tool box. Painting walls, and making big graphics.

    The things attract me didn’t change. Ancient times, Anatolian culture, Hititler, Selcuklular, Gobeklitepe, Catalhoyuk, cave art…

    Cave man print

    My inspiration is those ancient potteries seen in museums. I rebuild these models with plastic trash and cover them with paper mashed clay.

  • A got a product

    Today I’m having this feeling of an achievement. Not success but a progress coming out as a product.

    It is a milestone for me.

    With my first outcomes I can name what I am doing. I do cave pottery. Unfortunately I don’t use any clay as we know it. Instead I use recycled paper and plastic. With some glue and paint 🎨 I make unique handmade pieces.

    Vases, candle holders, pots…

    I mono print some graphics on paper and placed them on my work. They made my work more completed 👍 and more mine.

    Without any graphics on it, I thought it is key to make symmetrical piece as clear as can be to make it look pretty. But after adding a signature print on it, it just felt as it should be asymmetrical.

    Now I got a go ✅ to try new ones with some new recycle ♻️ clay.